British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 18378-1956 : a history / James Heartfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heartfield, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Antislavery movements.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 486 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part 1 The Americas

1 Abolition in Britain 9

2 The Struggle Against Apprenticeship and the Origins of the BFASS 23

3 Schisms 41

4 Slave Trade Diplomacy 71

5 The West Indies 91

6 The United States 131

7 Cuba and Brazil 175

Part 2 Africa and the Middle East

8 Africa before the 'Scramble' 203

9 The Anti-Slavery Society turns to East Africa 225

10 Zanzibar 239

11 Egypt and the Sudan 267

12 The Scramble for Africa 297

Part 3 The Colonial Labour Question

13 Indentured Labour 335

14 The Anti-Slavery Society into the Twentieth Century 351

15 The Congo 367

16 South Africa 379

17 Land and Labour in the Colonies 391

18 Anti-Slavery in the Era of World Wars 405.

ISBN:

9780190491673

0190491671

OCLC:

969542198